FACILITATED BY: River Dandelion
EXCHANGE: $25-75 Sliding Scale
This is a MINKA x Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Partnership Offering—Created to Bring Efforts of Equity, Diversity, and Decolonizing Work to All.
In order to know where we are going, we must know who we are, and from where we come. In a society filled with external noise, and push and pulls, sometimes we can feel disconnected from ourselves. Writing helps us return. In this creative writing workshop, facilitated by River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, participants will connect more deeply with their own inner voices through the power of poetry.
We will dive into the timelessness of writing through generative prompts that ask us to reflect on our roots, lineages, and community power to build a greater understanding towards the directions we are headed, and the dreams we seek that seek us too. Together we will co-create work through a healing-centered, anti-racist, gender-affirming facilitated space. All writing experiences are welcome.
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River Dandelion is a practitioner of ancestral medicine through writing poetry, teaching, energy healing, and creating ceremony. As a poet, he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken so we can feel and heal. As a healer, he is a trained reiki practitioner who helps clients move through transition and transformation. River also facilitates creative writing workshops, where participants connect with their own inner and collective power. A Tin House Resident, Lambda Literary Fellow, and Kundiman Fellow, River is the author of remembering (y)our light. River's work has been twice-nominated for Best of the Net (2024, 2022) and is published in Best New Poets (2021), The Offing, Bellevue Literary Review, The Margins, Asian American Journal of Psychology, and elsewhere. He has performed and presented his work globally from the Dodge Poetry Festival to the University of Havana. For more, visit: HERE.
Paying it Forward
We provide most of our community offerings and private sessions by sliding scale. This is based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ which enables more people to access healing and wellness. This works when people pay as much as they can for our offerings to help others who may be less fortunate be able to gain access, too. We believe everyone is entitled to heal and thrive, and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage. We are all in this together and choose to do our best to take care of one another. Thank you for being part of the MINKA community!